What decision is your Steering Committee actually supposed to make after reading this report?

What decision is your Steering Committee actually supposed to make after reading this report?

Most project reports I see are technically sound. Traffic lights set correctly. Milestones documented. Budget variances listed.

And yet the same thing happens in the Steering Committee: a brief nod, no discussion, meeting over.

I know this problem from many programmes: status reports are optimised to show progress. Not to trigger decisions.

Research on project status reporting has confirmed this for years: reports often present problems too positively, and warning signals get lost on their way to management.

Reporting is not a documentation tool. Reporting is a steering tool – with a clear logic: activity → progress → deviation → need for a decision → decision.

If your reporting does not show where a decision is needed – and where deliberately no decision is needed – it is more about reporting activity than steering.

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